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David Longford

@davidlongford.bsky.social
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"Is it rolling Bob?" Arts & heritage professional, B-movie enthusiast, cyclist and Finnish Spitz handler.

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David Longford @davidlongford.bsky.social · 41m
Rather tempted to book ... bmusic.co.uk/events/herb-...
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Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass | B:Music
The charity responsible for Birmingham Symphony Hall, home of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and Town Hall, the city's most iconic historic bui
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David Longford @davidlongford.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Filmed being inside the automatic car wash today. Quite exhilarating. At the end looms the Dryer of Doom.
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David Longford @davidlongford.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In case you're desperate to know what I thought. I think my eager anticipation right up until curtain up was #Beetlejuice the Musical's saving grace. Some spectacular staging, although rather traditional & clunky (front cloth, scene change, front cloth, scene change ...)
Pre-show staging at Prince Edward Theatre London for Beetlejuice the Musical, showing a vibrant coloured front-cloth and the words Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse in a neon style, with a large arrow pointing down, as depicted in original film.
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David Longford @davidlongford.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
And now about to see this ...
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David Longford @davidlongford.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Day trip to London. Anish Kapoor exhibition at Hayward Gallery. Brilliant and quite disturbing.
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David Longford @davidlongford.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Nottingham Castle needs to shout more about its rock legend visitors. Dylan of course in 1966, but reading Chris Frantz's memoir, there's also Talking Heads & The Ramones in 1977. All probably wondering where the actual castle is.
Black and white image of Bob Dylan in 1966 dressed in black and wearing sunglasses leaving Nottingham Castle through its large gates.Front cover to Chris Frantz memoir Remain In Light. Cover image shows Frantz and his Talking Heads co-member and wife Tina Weymouth.
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David Longford @davidlongford.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This is literally my current read & so really sad to hear the news about Tim Curry. His book is funny & deliciously honest. Highly recommended.
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David Longford @davidlongford.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
After years of following and occasionally being involved in their work, I've finally joined The Frank Matcham Society @frankmatchamsoc.bsky.social Really looking forward to being involved. www.frankmatchamsociety.org.uk
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FRANK MATCHAM SOCIETY
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Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
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David Longford @davidlongford.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Little Early Pearly has just come by in his curly wurly and asked me if I needed a ride. No sign of go-kart Mozart.
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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Hoping for clear skies later so we can add a new #SolarEclipse photo to our collection. Like this one that Tom Kent took 114 years ago of a solar eclipse over Kirkwall #Orkney in April 1912. Taken 2 days after the sinking of the Titanic. Archives are amazing. ❤️
A black and white archive photograph showing the silhouette of the spire of St Magnus Cathedral and a partial eclipse of the sun in the sky above it.
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David Longford @davidlongford.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Don't think I've ever laughed out loud so much in a museum. The Worst Record Covers in the World exhibition at Mansfield Museum is bizarre and wonderful.
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David Longford @davidlongford.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Sitting in the sun and mostly enjoying last night's Prog Rock Prom. Let's draw a swift veil over the vocals for 'Living in the Past' and what happened to the promised 'Reasons for Waiting'? www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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BBC Proms - 2026 - Prog Rock: A Fanfare for the Common Man - BBC Sounds
Live at the BBC Proms: BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor Robert Ames with Stuart Maconie
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David Longford @davidlongford.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
After Little Shop of Horrors on Monday, I'm now hosting this tonight at Broadway for Nottingham Puppet Festival. Only a few tkts left. www.broadway.org.uk/whats-on/not...
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Nottingham Puppet Festival: Fantastic Mr. Fox + Talk
Part of Nottingham Puppet Festival 2026 We’re delighted to welcome Richard Pickersgill, Workshop Supervisor and Senior Armature Maker from Mackinnon and Saunders, who will take part in a one-hour illu...
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David Longford @davidlongford.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
If you want advice on looking after your indoor house plants, I'll be doing a talk on the subject at Broadway Cinema tonight www.broadway.org.uk/whats-on/not...
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Nottingham Puppet Festival: Little Shop of Horrors - 40th Anniversary + Intro
For years, the only version of Frank Oz’s ebullient film adaptation of the smash off-Broadway musical was the theatrical cut, re-edited with a new, happy ending after test audiences reacted badly to t...
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David Longford @davidlongford.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
The Cenotaph on Remembrance Day is going to crowded even more with ex-PMs laying their wreaths. They'll have to introduce a Sainsbury's deli style ticket system #Starmer
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 21/06/2026
NEW Stewart Lee column for the Nerve Exit stage far-right – now Britain’s theatres are being urged to capitulate to Farage www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
Text card saying ‘Stewart Lee on British theatre and Farage’ and then this quote from him: “A new strategy document is calling for the industry to ‘engage warmly’ with Reform. Why? So Robert Kenyon can remake ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore?” Accompanied by a photograph of Stewart
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David Longford @davidlongford.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
This morning's dog walk. Happy #SummerSolstice
A large green field in the foreground, with a solitary house in the distance, with a bright blue sky and a ribbon of cloud.
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David Longford @davidlongford.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Looking back on some images taken at Lightroom's David Hockney show in 2023.
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David Longford @davidlongford.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Saw afternoon screening of #Backrooms It was probably not a good idea to go into John Lewis afterwards.
Image of furniture dept of John Lewis Nottingham.
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David Longford @davidlongford.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
I co-founded Nottingham Puppet Festival back in 2018. Delighted it's still going strong & looking forward to returning, talking to stop-motion animator Richard Pickersgill & hosting screening of Fantastic Mr Fox nottinghampuppetfestival.co.uk/event/14191/...
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Puppets On Screen
Join Richard Pickersgill of Mackinnon & Saunders for a look into his 25-year career on films like Coraline and Pinocchio, exploring the mix of traditional and modern cinematic puppetry.
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David Longford @davidlongford.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
A Gun Through Time. A fascinating & sobering talk from @davidolusoga.bsky.social last night @nottmplayhouse.bsky.social
Stage setting for A Gun Through Time, featuring a screen picturing David Olusoga and in front 4 historical guns standing on plinths.
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David Longford @davidlongford.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Always do a Prom concert each year. Absolute no brainer to put this on my Proms Plan www.bbc.co.uk/events/ed5fbp @stuartmaconie.bsky.social @royalalberthall.bsky.social
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Prog Rock: A Fanfare for the Common Man
The Proms celebrates prog rock with BBC Radio 6 Music host Stuart Maconie, presenting brand-new orchestral arrangements of songs by Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Genesis, Jethro Tull, Mike Oldfield, Renaiss...
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David Longford @davidlongford.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Discovered some kind of tyre 'installation' in a derelict barn during morning dog walk. Finally realised what it reminded me of.
Three upright tyres on top of each other. Held together by a vertical pole going through them.The logo for 60s/70s series Vision On, created by Tony Hart. The words Vision On are twice written vertically and placed against each other to create an interesting animal with large eyes.
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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 12/04/2026
Hungary has chosen Europe. Europe has always chosen Hungary. A country reclaims its European path. The Union grows stronger.
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David Longford @davidlongford.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
'Spontaneous' soup of the day ???
Lunch menu for The Spring Lane Farm cafe, with the curious offering of spontaneous soup of the day
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Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
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David Longford @davidlongford.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Worked in commercial regional theatre for 25 yrs and never really liked musicals. Saw Hamilton last night at the beautiful Victoria Palace. Stunning. I reckon it could do quite well.
Programme cover for Hamilton, depicting the title character representing the top part of an American 5 pointed star.View of the ornate Frank Matcham designed ceiling of the Victoria Palace Theatre in London, featuring glass dome at the top and the curved lines of the boxes and upper circles.
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David Longford @davidlongford.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
This is what happens when you manage a museum. In my case @frameworkknitters.bsky.social You visit the National Gallery, and despite being surrounded by exquisite works of art, you end up being more interested in one of their donation points.
A donation point at the National Gallery in London, showing cash given, as well as a card machine.
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Why Don't YouTube? @whydontyoutube.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
40 YEARS AGO TODAY: "Siouxsie Sioux and Budgie on Wide Awake Club" is a statement full of promise enough before you see the pair joining in with the marzipan cooking make, admiring an otter and backing the world hackysack champion with a bowed cage.
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Siouxsie & Budgie | The Wide Awake Club (1986)
Before they get down to business, Siouxsie and Budgie help the co-television host fix a fine recipe. Which doesn't really go exactly as planned, but they try. Btw, I believe this video was uploaded before but I don't know what happened so here's a little-remastered version by me.
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David Longford @davidlongford.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Saw The Testament of Ann Lee at the start of the week. Great film & certainly my movie of the year so far, but have now become slightly obsessed with Shaker tunes. Daniel Blumberg's score is superb. youtu.be/BiFhLI39KsI?...
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Daniel Blumberg & Cast - Worship | The Testament of Ann Lee (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
YouTube video by Milan Records USA
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David Longford @davidlongford.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Again @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social comes up trumps. Finished watching Messiah of Evil, a clearly under-rated 1970s horror. Worth watching just for the slow-burning & very creepy cinema scene. youtu.be/rfLFCgBzmS4?...
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Messiah of Evil (1973) - Movie Theater Scene
YouTube video by tiredtangerine
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David Longford @davidlongford.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Rather pleased with these Mapperley #Oxfam purchases today. Clearly, I'm drawn to smokers.
Items purchased from Oxfam store in Mapperley, Nottingham ... 2 books, The Kenneth Tynan Diaries, Einstein and the Art of Mindful Cycling and a Jacques Brel CD collection.
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David Longford @davidlongford.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Just back from seeing Wuthering Heights. Sorry, I mean "Wuthering Heights". Bored to tears, even though Clem Fandango plays Linton.
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David Longford @davidlongford.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Binge watched Small Prophets last night and it is so funny and beautiful. Best TV in a long time. Guardian review nailed it with having "wonder below the surface" www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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Small Prophets review – Mackenzie Crook’s magical new comedy is pure, pure pleasure
Wonder lies below the surface of this truly fantastic sitcom from the creator of Detectorists. It’s an impossible marvel of TV making
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David Longford @davidlongford.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
If you are thinking, what is this wondrous container with such enchanted contents? It's a tin of dog food.
A tin of Lily's Kitchen dog food (chicken and turkey casserole) with the words 'This is where the MAGIC HAPPENS' written on the lid.
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David Longford @davidlongford.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
RIP actor Bud Cort. Final image from film Harold and Maude, with Cort walking along a cliff top, back to camera, playing a banjo.
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David Longford @davidlongford.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Someone in the TV graphics dept, clearly got an Etch-a-Sketch for Christmas #WinterOlympics
Pic of BBC ice skating coverage with graphic in bottom left hand corner of a wiggly line charting the skater's progress around the rink.
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David Longford @davidlongford.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Actor Catherine O'Hara in Beetlejuice.
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David Longford @davidlongford.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Hotel lounge & bar. Saltburn-by-the Sea. I can only imagine the decor was inspired by the vast herds of giraffes that once roamed the North-East.
A large white giraffe model amidst ornate and unnecessary hotel decorationA model giraffe's head mounted on hotel wall, as if it has been recently shot.Yet another model giraffe's head, mounted on hotel lounge wall, holding a chandelier in its mouth. They often do this in the wild.More giraffes! This time a family of them in front of a piano.
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David Longford @davidlongford.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
A display in the utterly charming Staithes Museum, North Yorkshire. Roger Corman would be proud.
Two figures in a glass box created out of crab claws, with clothes and painted features. Undated, but likely 19th century.
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David Longford @davidlongford.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/re...
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MPs shouldn't be able to switch parties without asking us first!
I just signed a petition calling for mandatory by-elections when an MP changes their political party. We vote for a specific manifesto and set of values—if that changes, we should get to vote again. I...
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David Longford @davidlongford.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Hotel bedroom art. Saltburn-by-the-Sea.
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David Longford @davidlongford.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
"James seemed to treat the show as an audition for a bizarre unmade CBeebies show about a vomiting gardener" Such a funny & accurate #TheTraitors review by @heritage.bsky.social @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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The Traitors finale review – unbelievably stressful and bloodthirsty … till the last second
Though the cracks are starting to show, the endgame was undeniably nail-biting. And honestly, thank God for Rachel – the terrifyingly ruthless saviour of this series
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Framework Knitters Museum, Ruddington, Nottinghamshire @frameworkknitters.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
We have launched RIOT ACT. A new play by Andy Barrett about the Notts framework knitters & the rise of the Luddites. A bold piece that will receive its premiere as a rehearsed reading at the Museum in March. Community actors now wanted. Details here frameworkknittersmuseum.org.uk/get-involved...
Recruitment poster, featuring image of Ned Ludd, for community actors to take part in rehearsed reading of Riot Act, a new play by Andy Barrett in March 2026.
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David Longford @davidlongford.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
#Hamnet is such a beautiful, beautiful film. No tears, but then came the final scene. Destroyed me. The play is indeed the thing.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
“We’re gonna need a bigger bus”
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David Longford @davidlongford.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
The annual Christmas morning dog walk pic.
Biscuit, a golden coloured Finnish Spitz dog, standing on a grassy path, with a bright blue winter sky behind him.
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David Longford @davidlongford.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
My home village of Lambley has made it into @privateeyenews.bsky.social (via @russs.bsky.social ?) Inevitably with a Reform council it's in Rotten Boroughs. I'm presuming the stated bureaucracy was waived by Reform for their own flag nonsense we're all now forced to see.
Article in Private Eye about new demands from Reform led Notts County Council for putting up Xmas lights in Lambley village.
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David Longford @davidlongford.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Really sad to hear about the death of Mick Abrahams. I clearly remember seeing Blodwyn Pig at the long gone Bobby Brown's in Nottingham with @sarahskelding.bsky.social After the gig MA signed my fag packet & I nicked a poster. Still kept hold of them.
Gig poster for Blodwyn Pig at Bobby Brown's Cafe in Nottingham from early 90s. Poster shows Mick Abrahams holding his guitarPacket of Camel Lights signed by Mick Abrahams of Blodwyn Pig. As well as his signature, Mick drew an arrow to the pictured camel, with the words 'Me at Work'. Writing now very faded.
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